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The Death of Right and Wrong
By Horace Cooper
May 19, 2003

Who'd guess that the latest patriot in America's 21st century cultural battles would be a pro-choice lesbian feminist? But who better than Tammy Bruce, a former chapter head of the National Organization for Women to give inside information about how serious the challenge that American civilization faces? Her thesis is that the battle we are fighting is over whether "right and wrong" will be allowed to continue their existence as we know them.

This former cultural warrior for the left shares her experiences of working with gay activists and other cultural radicals. Her revelations tell us that things aren't as bad as we feared. They're worse. In "The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values", she reveals the Left bold "shock and awe campaign" to eviscerate America's culture and moral standards. Why, because the Left is attempting a cultural regime change in order to impose a radical nihilism as the reigning moral and cultural ethos. Her frank discussion about the radical feminists' agenda foreshadows the recent NOW official's complaint that charging alleged murderer Scott Peterson with double homicide might cause people to think of the unborn as a person.

Tammy Bruce pulls no punches. She acknowledges the Left's "open season on children" and she explains how the Left uses sex-education programs to promote sexual activity for children at the earliest ages. Ms. Bruce cites the texts of school workbooks and textbooks to show that bizarre and abhorrent behavior is encouraged for kids as young as five years old. Tammy says what social conservatives have been afraid to say, "Last I checked, it was good for children to be afraid of incurable STDs, HIV, depression and suicide. But the call to normalize and promote sexual activity among children has made advocacy for abstinence the deviant position."

Presenting example after example of both eyewitness and documented news accounts, she reveals the hidden agenda of the radical nihilists who push their dangerous agenda under the cloak of tolerance and open-mindedness. But the truth is that these activists have a powerful hatred of America institutions and our national identity.

Tammy Bruce leaves no stones unturned. She explains that the Left's attacks on the Catholic Church and people of faith in general are part of a concerted effort to take out key cultural foundations that stand in the way of their objectives. These counter-cultural hedonists use scientific analysis and academic research to eradicate any knowledge or awareness of our nation's intellectual and cultural foundations. "Ignorance sustains the moral relativists, and knowledge is to them as water is to the Wicked Witch of the West."

But she doesn't stop there. Other sacred cows of the left are exposed as well. Ms. Bruce acknowledges that Mike Tyson, Michael Jackson and O.J. Simpson are "the sickest and most dangerous" in the black community yet they are "protected, supported and celebrated." Why? Because Leftists within the black community are motivated by a "deep-rooted hatred for their country and themselves." What Tammy Bruce calls the "Cult of victimhood" provides "graphic and distressing examples of how much damage can be inflicted" on blacks when the "malignant narcissists are in charge." Says Tammy, "Black Americans are facing nothing less than libel at the hands of their so-called leaders."

She discusses the corrosive role of entertainment and sports which allows these elitists to continue unabated in their debauchery profitably and "because it forces society to integrate with their hopeless worldview." If Bob Dole had claimed that the film, American Beauty "hammered home the idea that there are no values, no morality, nothing virtuous to strive for" he would be dismissed as a cultural crank, but Tammy Bruce does so with the conviction of someone who has witnessed the intellectual vacuity of the Left and knows how important it is to sound the alarm.

Readers of her chapter on the agenda of the radical gay elite will understand fully the furor over Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum's recent remarks about the Texas v. Lawrence case because it shows the intolerance of a movement feigning tolerance as a goal but actually committed to "eliminating the lines of decency and morality across the board."

Part personal life story, part philosophical treatise, "The Death of Right and Wrong" is the compelling story of her philosophical journey from being a storm trooper of the Left Elite activists to a foot soldier in the culture war to save America. With a moral clarity reminiscent of Whittaker Chambers in Witness, Tammy Bruce warns us that unless we act now, we are doomed at the hands of cultural radicals who want nothing more than to undermine our ability to judge right from wrong in order to foist their own selfish, anything-goes society on the rest of us.

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Horace Cooper is a senior fellow with the Centre for New Black Leadership (CNBL.org) an organization which exists to encourage the formulation of public policies that enhance the ability of individuals and communities to develop market-oriented, community-based approaches to solving economic and social problems plaguing black communities in America.